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A federal judge in Atlanta this month divided more than 30 class-action lawsuits against Home Depot into two groups: consumers and financial institutions.
Both groups filed class-action lawsuits after last year’s data breach, which compromised the payment card information of 56 million Home Depot customers who made purchases at the home improvement stores between April and September.
“While many of the legal issues and much of the discovery are common to the claims of both, the cases present significant, distinct factual and legal issues,” says Thomas Thrash, chief judge of the Northern District of Georgia, in an article from The National Law Journal. “Accordingly, to manage the litigation most efficiently, the court hereby creates separate tracks for the consumer and financial institution cases.”
Home Depot has turned to two Atlanta law firms to handle the legal process, the article says.
After the recent, high-profile Target Corp. data breach, a federal judge in Minnesota similarly split the Target lawsuits, the article says.
To read more about the lawsuits and how Home Depot expects to spend to recover from the data breaches, click here.
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